On 10/4/2014 7:23 PM, PGNd wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014, at 07:11 PM, Tom Eastep wrote: >> Please remember that the installers were never designed to install a >> runnable sandbox. This is just another case where the installer is >> assuming that the directory exists if DESTDIR isn't set -- it now >> creates the directory. > > I do remember. > > Yet, a runable shorewall install in a sandbox is still my goal. I certainly > admit a frustration with the different approach to an installer _here_ than > with other apps (e.g., your typical autofoo-based install), yet ACK that the > choice was made for likely good reasons. And, I'll keep plugging away at > this until I have a clean, well-behaved solution - whether integrated into > upstream, or a local kludge. > > If the only eventually viable answer is to abandon upstream's build/install > system, and instead build an rpm, ok; I've yet to come to that conclusion. > Apart from the currently infrequent errant message, it seems to be eminently > possible to install a runable sandbox. > > That said, the aforementioned FAIL notification, > > "ERROR: Failed to install -T -o root -g root -m 0544 init.suse.sh > /usr/local/shorewall-custom/etc/init.d/shorewall-init" > > though perhaps accurate, doesn't do much to identify/suggest the solution -- > namely, making sure the prerequisite -core is installed. > > Hence the suggestion to possibly check for the prereq, and fail gracefully > with an informative notification, nothing more.
It was easier to just create the init.d directory in the -init installer. I pushed that change earlier this evening. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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